Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-04-21
THE NEWS.

The Texas drouth has been relieved
with rain.
Real estate spectators are hocking to
Bowling Green, o.
Illinois wheat prospects are for three>
fourths the average crop.
New York custom house officers are
capturing smuggled Cuban cigars.
Sixty three men are now under arrest
for the Pan Handle train robberies.
The village of Farnham. Va, on th e
RappahanDock, was destroyed by fire.
Bad winter wheat reports are received
by the Ohio state board Of agriculture.
A postal card harrow swindle has
been worked upon farmers ia Preble
county, o.
A Republican caucus of the Michigan
legislature agreed on high liquor IL
cepse bill.
In Telling tree near Lima, O., John
Bussard was killed and Clinton Long
staff fatally injured.
Leipsic, O., is getting ready to join
the oil and gas boom. Several gas wells
are TO be sank at Ripley.
The common council of Rich mond
Ind. has appropriated $4,000 for the
purpose of sinking gas wells.
A, Indianapolis, Lieutenant Governor
Robertson has begun snii against Green
smith TO recover $4,000 damages.
1t is feared by s,.mr of The frrods ~
John I RAYMOND hi> ~ may ha0-
died from AZ ov-rd.iss 81 rn.'rphiDt.
Another t,IunIetit as wrll na,
heen struck at st dsr =, q ,n~ gssi l.
escaping trdm * - pIJt With
great force.
Near elina. O..l ;:':.,u Busct,~ farm
II, killed his sick 81, wish hamm.r.
in the woods.
The Interstate eommerce law is sAid
to be giving not only the river trade u
lift but 10 be making business lively on
the OHIO canals.
A bill granting women the right to
vote In municipal elections was defeat
ed In the Michigan House of Represent
R;ives By SS to 90.
Two fireman were killed and others
Injured ut the burning Of j ] McGrstb's
paper house in Chicago. Estimated loss
$3.50, 900. insurance $lS0.O00.
Sup't Taylor, Of the Panhandle rail
road at Pittsburg, received 3 threaten
ing letter warning him to make no more
arrests for the train robberies.
Work on the new state house at Indi>
annapolis will be continued, notwith-
standing the failure of tho legislature to
make the necessary appropriations.
Mrs E W Albers, of New Orleans.
claims to have been cured of consump'
tion by the new treatment with car,
oonic acid gas and sulphuretted hydro'
gen.
Charlie Taylor. well known Jockey,
was fatally hurt. and the colt Asfsltus
was killed, by collision with another
horse while exercising On the Louisville
track.
In a fight between farmers near La.
fayette. Ind, about the possession of
labd, Isaac Downs filled the body OF
John 81. Holloway with shot, fatally
lDjuring him.
Chicago COW doctors, engaged In
out pleuro-pneum0nia, are
said to have necdlessly killed large mum
oers of valuable animals that were
perfectly healthy.
Gov Foraker has appointed Mr. Leo.
pold Burckhnrt, Edward F Noyes w s
Grosback, Jnhu SimpkinsoD, Andrew
HickenloOper. T A O'ConnOr and A E.
Jones, Harrison monument commits
siOnors.
The reports to the Illinois department
of agriculture, from nearly every town
ship IN Illinois, indicate that the area OF
the growing crop of winter wheat is not
quite as large as that harvested last
season.
A skeleton. in brondcloth clothes and
Grand Army SLOUGH hat, was found BY
hunter In q Quagmire near Chicago.
where the unfortunate had evidently
been smothered to death or STUCK In the
mud and starved TO death.
Out Of b6 Presidential sppointmerts
in the nine territories. including Aisska |
and Wyoming and excluding tna Dis |
irict OF Columbia, A have b-en changed
50 far by President Cleveland, and r.
publicans superseded D, Democrats.
A vigilance committee frnm Brown
county. Neb,. overtook Two yonns horse
thieves near Sargent, Nsh.. snst and
killed one OF them. Joseph Arnold, and
the other, James Bohan. One
Of the viyilsntes was dangerously shot.
Recently several people Of Cincinnati.
we're taken violently i'll after aatine